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title: Install vmauth on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of vmauth for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - vmauth
  is a simple auth proxy, router and load balancer for VictoriaMetrics
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/vmauth/rhel
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# Install vmauth on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux**

# vmauth

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/vmauth/rhel#install)

#### vmauth is a simple auth proxy, router and load balancer for VictoriaMetrics

It reads auth credentials from `Authorization` http header (Basic Auth, `Bearer token` and InfluxDB authorization is supported), matches them against configs pointed by -auth.config command-line flag and proxies incoming HTTP requests to the configured per-user `url_prefix` on successful match. The `-auth.config` can point to either local file or to http url.

**Quick start**

Just download `vmutils-*` archive from releases page, unpack it and pass the following flag to vmauth binary in order to start authorizing and routing requests:

`/path/to/vmauth -auth.config=/path/to/auth/config.yml`

After that vmauth starts accepting HTTP requests on port `8427` and routing them according to the provided -auth.config. The port can be modified via `-httpListenAddr` command-line flag.

The auth config can be reloaded via the following ways:

* By passing `SIGHUP` signal to `vmauth`.
* By querying `/-/reload` http endpoint. This endpoint can be protected with `-reloadAuthKey` command-line flag. See security docs for more details.
* By specifying -configCheckInterval command-line flag to the interval between config re-reads. For example, `-configCheckInterval=5s` will re-read the config and apply new changes every 5 seconds.

See how vmauth used in docker-compose env at <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/README.md#victoriametrics-cluster>.

Pass `-help` to `vmauth` in order to see all the supported command-line flags with their descriptions.

Feel free contacting us if you need customized auth proxy for VictoriaMetrics with the support of LDAP, SSO, RBAC, SAML, accounting and rate limiting such as <https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html> .

### Package name

* vmauth

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### License

* Apache-2.0

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### Last updated

* 9 December 2024 - latest/stable
* 9 December 2024 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [victoriametrics.com](https://victoriametrics.com/ "https://victoriametrics.com/")

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### Contact

* [info@victoriametrics.com](mailto:info@victoriametrics.com "mailto:info@victoriametrics.com")

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### Source code

* [github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics "https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/new/choose "https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/new/choose")

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## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install vmauth

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.

The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command:

```
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
```

Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended:

```
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install vmauth

To install vmauth, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install vmauth
```

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